the.water.birds

Learning how to watercolor while learning the birds of North America. Etsy shop, including art commissions: https://thewaterbirds.etsy.com

Brown-headed Cowbird

2025, watercolor and gouache

Painted for this month’s BirdWhisperer Project.

#brown headed cowbird #birds #birding #bird art #my art #traditional art

Mallard drake portrait

2025, watercolor and gouache

#mallard #traditional art #my art #artists on tumblr #watercolour art #watercolor

Lady Northern Cardinal [Exasperated Version]

2025, watercolor and gouache

#northern cardinal #bird watercolor #traditional art #my art #artists on tumblr #birding

Hooded Merganser

2025, watercolor and gouache

#duck art #waterfowl #bird watercolor #watercolor #traditional art #birding

Laughing Kookaburra

2025, watercolor and gouache

#kookaburra #wildlife #birb #artwork #my art #artists on tumblr

Wood Duck Drake

2025, watercolor and gouache

I love this guy. He’ll be the first painting of mine actually hung up in the house once I get this little metal hanger thing to go into the wood frame.

#art #traditional art #watercolor #wildlife #wildlife art #duck art

Rock Dove

2025, watercolor and gouache

Painted for February’s #BirdWhisperer prompt over on Bluesky.

#rock dove #pigeon #watercolor art #watercolour illustration #artists on tumblr

American Flamingo [Phoenicopterus ruber]

watercolor and gouache, 2025

National bird for Bahamas.

#art #wildlife #watercolor #wildlife art #traditional art #flamingo #pink

African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer)

National bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

2025, watercolor and gouache

#eagle #traditional art #artists on tumblr #wildlife #wildlife art

Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Official national bird of the United States.

2025, watercolor and gouache

#bald eagle #painting #watercolor art #my art #wildlife #birding